Ellsworth Kelly Quotes


I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.


Citations

Cooke, Rachel. "Ellsworth Kelly: 'I want to live another 15 years'." The Guardian, 8 Nov. 2015.

Related Quotes

He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.


Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
  • Born: May 31, 1923
  • Died: December 27, 2015
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Artist

Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.